HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080759350
Bassin de Tinkisso
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Dinguiraye, Kouroussa
Sub-basin area
984,4km²
Upstream area
12 181,7km²
Discharge
114,56m³/s
Mean elev.
404m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tinkisso442 km²
- Bassin de Tinkisso107 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 623.0 km²63.5% of basin
- DinguirayeFaranah · Guinea357.5 km²36.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tinkisso
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
975.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
302mm/an
PET
2 065mm
AET
983mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
136cm
Forest
13%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)